Author Archives: rkrontheroad

Our next destination, driving around the south end of the South Island from Doubtful Sound, was to Dunedin and the Otago Peninsula. There were a few interesting stops along the way. My journaling was a bit lax on this leg of the journey, for photos downloaded much later from my phone, so some of theseContinue reading “Dunedin”

When I traveled around the South Island of New Zealand in 2010, I drove down the east coast and cut across to the fjord country through Queenstown. Circling the South Island with my son in 2014, we started by driving along the west coast. Our one planned stop was to see the unusual striated limestoneContinue reading “Doubtful Sound”

Milford Sound lies in Fiordland National Park and is one of the more accessible and dramatic openings to the Tasman Sea. The land along its coast is host to the famous four-day hiking route in New Zealand, the Milford Track. It was named by an early European settler after Milford Haven, an inlet along the WelshContinue reading “Milford Sound”

Digging down into the bottom layer of my suitcase, I took out my few warmies, ready for the chill of a higher altitude, and headed up to the mountains. A serene scene welcomed me to my stop for the night by Lake Tekapo, a huge aquamarine lake backed by the jagged peaks of the Southern Alps ofContinue reading “Queenstown”

I had originally planned on doing a hike, or tramp as it’s called by Kiwis, along part of the Abel Tasman Coastal Track in the National Park at the north end of New Zealand’s South Island, but I was in no shape for tramping, having sprained my ankle. Instead, I took a catamaran along the park’sContinue reading “Abel Tasman National Park”